Type holder



C. A. MACOMIC. TYPE HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED D5021, l92l.

1,434,958, Patented Nov.! 7, 1922.

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Applicationmed December 27,1921. Serial No. 525,178.

To alZ whom it may concem: I

Be it known that I, Ciuts'rnn A. 'h'leoouio, a citizen of the United States oi America, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful lmprovement in Type Holders,

of which'the following is a specification.

This invention relates to type holders intended for retaining in alined position a line of type, while the type are being transferred from a typesetting machine to printingior casting means,-and for sininporting the typewhile inthe printing mechanism. The typesetting machine tor-which theipresent holder is particularly designed is the one described in the patent to Chester A. Macomic, typesetting 'machinefNo. 1,301,146, issued April 22, 1919, and in the application for patent of Bester R. Webster, executed on Gotober 4, 1921, andfiled of even date herewith.

The objects of the invention are to provide improved means for supporting, alining, and locking in set position a line of selected type.

The objects of the invention are accomplished by the device shown in the accom panying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the type holder showing a few type supported there- Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of the type supporting bar.

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the type locking bar, which is slidably mounted within the type supporting bar. Fig. 1 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view of the type holder.

Figs. 5 and 6 are end views thereof.

Fig. 7 is a transverse sectional detail taken on the line 7-7 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 8 is a transverse sectional detail taken on the line 88 of Fig. 4. i i

Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a type suitably formed for coaction with the type holder. 1

The machine described inthe above-mentioned patent to Macomic, and for which this type holder is designed, consists of keyoperated typewriter having provision for operating type selecting mechanis which is adapted to successively coact with type supporting plates of a type magazine for the purpose of successively filling type holders of the type to which this application for patent is directed. After a plurality of such type holders are filled with the desired type, they are simultaneously operated upon to lock the type in set position, and then are removed from the machine, without changing their O1Cl61,'l10 a printing mechanism or matrix making machine.

'The type holder consists or a transversely slotted bar. the slots of which are adapted to register with similar type supporting slots in the type plates of the type:maga-' zine. The type supporting bar is longitudlnally grooved to recelve a comb-shaped locking and alining bar. This locking bar is 'shittable- .t'or a slight distance along the groove in the -su ).p'ortin'g bar so that the teeth of the locking bar may be engaged with or disengaged from the, type. I The type supporting bar and the locking bar may be machined from solid stock, or drawn and milled or punched and formed from'flat stock.

As finished, the supporting bar 1 is milled to provide the head portions 2 and 3, and a plurality of upwardly projecting spacing teeth 1. A rectangular groove 5 in the bottom of the bar, and extending upwardly into the teeth 4 thereof, extends from end to endot bar 1 and receives the locking and alining bar 6, which is provided with a plurality of upwardly projecting T-shaped teeth 7 The locking bar 6 is slightly movable along the groove in bar 1, and is nor mally urged into locking position to the right as illustrated in Fig. 1-,by a coiled spring 8. This spring bears between the end of the locking bar and a plug 9 in the end of bar 1. The movement of the locking bar 6 under the action of the spring, is limited by the shoulders 10 and 11. The type 12 as shown in Fig. 5, are provided with T-shaped recesses 13 on one side, which are entered by the teeth of the locking bar when it is permitted to move to the right under the action of its spring 8. In its normal position, the locking bar is shifted to the left (Fig. 41) against the action of the front and rear edges so as to easily permit type to pass into and through the slots of the bar. v I

When in operation the locking bars 6 are held in the left hand position, Fig. hwhere the teeth thereof are hidden in the slots In the teeth e of the supporting bar The slots are therefore open to receive type. When the holder is filled as desired, the locking bar is released, spring 8 urging it to the right, as shown in F l, With its teeth 7 bearing against the type Within the T- shaped recesses 13 in the sides thereof;

Although but one specific embodiment of this invention has been herein shown and described it Will be understood that numerous details of the construction shown may be altered or omitted Without departing "from the spirit of this invention as defined by the following claims.

I claim:

1. A type holder, comprising a comb shaped bar having a longitudinal groove, a type locking member slidable in said groove, said locking member having teethtor engaging yp i it t e holder. "com risin a comb shaped bar havin a iongitudinal groove, a

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groove, said locking member having teeth for engaging type, type in the comb-shaped bar having recesses for receiving-the teeth of said locking bar, and means for normaliy urging said lockingbar into locking engagement with. the type:

Signed at Chicago this 23rd day of Decem' ber 1921. v i

CHESTEK A. MACOMIC. 

